Thing 16

Love the Wiki-what a great tool to connect students in other classes doing the same projects. Can also see using this for conference planning and in services. My favorite Wiki was Book Lovers-I could spend a lot of time here so I put it on delicious!
Think I will sign up for wetpaint-that sounds like an arty one.

Thing 15

library 2.0-I think that we are on the cusp of making our students more interested in school and helping them retain what they are learning. I want now to go look at Open World Cat and see what have been created since the article I read was published. I also like the quote that the library is a social and emotional center while 2.0 is a strategy guide. Also the overcrowded classes like they showed in the video is much like the way I went to school and my sons did. We must change how we teach to meet the iPhone, blogging, facebook generation. Both my sons are in careers that are new and they totally use computers in their line of work. They blog, facebook, twitter and use RSS every day. I hear my students talking this way and I now see ways of sparking their interest. They are like the girl in the video with the sign I am a multi-tasker.
But me, I will always need a "collection" of books-I like to read them and re-read and to go to the library and picks them out.
My nieces do not do this-they use Kendal's or download to their ipods and keep up with the latest books.
I still prefer Libraries.

Thing 15

Can't start thing 15-my computer keeps shutting down-now it tells me it has a problem with yahoo and delicious as well as internet explorer. I guess someone who had to go from SMU to TCU just to see what computers were all about and to be on a computer for the first time is now cursed to be on speed dial for SBISD Geek!!!

Thing 14

So now I am getting mad at my dell-I just got knocked off again by Internet explorer-this is getting tiresome. I've cleared cookies and history but still get getting the problem error message.
Anyhow I made an interesting discovery. I went back to prior things and added them to delicious and tagged them. I get it now. Funny thing is that the hospital where I am working (brought my 94 year old father in for an outpatient check) blocked several of the web sites that are on the list.
I found Technorati to be interesting and fun. I checked out several art sites and fun videos which have kept me entertained while I wait. I don't plan on becoming a big blogger so I didn't want to register my site-I like having it in house with fellow teachers
I just don't know if I would continue to use this site. (I do have it on delicious)

I also solved another problem I have had with my lap top. I would be typing along and suddenly my curser would be somewhere else on the page because I touched the screen below the keyboard. I made a trading card-printed it on index paper-cut it out-and tapped it over the screen-YEA-no more messed up typing! I am one of those people who just has to have a mouse!

Question

Is anyone else having internet explorer problems? I need getting messages that it needs to close down or that I need to work off line. It has taken me awhile to do Thing 13 as a result of this.
Am I putting too much on this school computer by joinging so many websites?
I do defrag and remove cookies-any other ideas?

Thing 13

I tried delicious but by the time I got them, I didn't remember all the steps and had to go back. Again this is a problem for a tactile visual learner like me. I really need a book to go with this not just watch a video then go do it.

I found the selections under art to be pretty weak but I will try several sights. I need find a few artists that I had not heard of and enjoyed on of the artists featured in Wired. I tried to add it to my RSS but again did not remember the steps and I hadn't signed up for delicious yet so I couldn't bookmark it there. I just don't spend this much time on my computer and it seems as if my computer is running slower and freezes more. Igoogle freese every time I leave it so I now sign out of it as a vistor to my site recommended-Thanks! I need all the help I can get.

I can also see how tagging would help you find things quicker, so I will keep at it. I am going to start a journel of steps for each section. Will go back a re-read taking notes how to do what I have already done.

I am not sure that I would really use this service-I could I guess use it as a homework source for my pre-ap class but I don't see how this is better than just saving to favorites. Remember this is all new to me.

Thing 12

Here is a news and tech site that I found interesting
http://technorati.com/blogs/mashable.com
Had no idea Google was going for their own operating system.

And another one that I def. found useful
http://technorati.com/blogs/artjunction.org%2Fblog

I looked over several of the suggestive sites-most were interesting-a few I honestly thought were a bit full of themselves. One thing I learned-was to be honest and open-invite comments-ask questions and my favorite was from Blue Skunk-don't be a troll. But I was a troll, since he no longer allows comments! I enjoyed his writing style and openness.
I see now looking at most of my postings that I am short with responses and am not really saying a lot. So I am off to view others.
I must say that Confused in Suburbia really heped me when I first started this project and that Mamalibearian has given me wonderful feedback. I also checked out two of my best buds (Schock's blog and Schocking news) from school and found their web sites to be so much like themselves.
Will continue to add to this section.